Timeline of Quinine Use

1633, a Jesuit priest named Father Calancha described how to use quinine bark to cure fevers

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1645 Father Bartolome Tafur took some bark to Rome and many of the clergy used it

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Cardinal John de Lugo wrote a pamphlet to be distributed with the bark - use of the bark became so widespread that in the papal conclave of 1655 no one died of malaria

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1654 – English aware of use of quinine bark

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1735, a French botanist named Joseph de Jussieu journeyed to South America and found and described the tree that is the source of the bark - he sent samples to Sweden where in 1739, Carl Linneaus named the tree genus Cinchona